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The TrentonianFri, 18 Aug 2017 01:27:56 -040060Trenton >> It's fitting that the Thunder chopped their magic number to clinch a playoff spot down to one on a night the two players who have been here the entire season provided the clutch at-bats.

Thairo Estrada singled home to two runs to tie the game then dashed home on Zack Zehner's sacrifice fly to spark an eighth-inning rally and give the Thunder a 4-3 victory over Akron in the rubber game of the series on Thursday night at Arm & Hammer Park.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:46:54 -0400201708172347432017-08-17T23:46:54-04:002017-08-17T23:47:43-04:00SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. >> Chris Cartnick hit four home runs and had 10 RBIs for Holbrook, New Jersey, in its Mid-Atlantic regional tournament. Ethan Righter of Fairfield, Connecticut, struck out 18 over 9 1/3 innings in the New England tournament.

On Thursday, in the first inning of their first game at the Little League World Series, the two faced each other at a key moment.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:35:51 -0400201708171935512017-08-17T19:35:51-04:002017-08-17T19:35:51-04:00WASHINGTON >> While Monday's total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there's a small group of people who have experienced it all before and they can't get enough of it.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:20:07 -0400201708171920072017-08-17T19:20:07-04:002017-08-17T19:20:07-04:00BRIDGEWATER >> Contradicting a boss already under pressure to fire him, President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon says there's no military solution to the threat posed by North Korea and its nuclear ambitions. Just last week, Trump pledged to answer North Korean aggression with "fire and fury.]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:20:02 -0400201708171920022017-08-17T19:20:02-04:002017-08-17T19:20:02-04:00NEW YORK >> It took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hate and violence.

In the wake of the deadly clash at a white-nationalist rally last weekend in Virginia, major companies such as Google, Facebook and PayPal are banishing a growing cadre of extremist groups and individuals for violating service terms.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:20:01 -0400201708171920012017-08-17T19:20:01-04:002017-08-17T19:20:01-04:00QUARRYVILLE, Pa. >> Police say a Pennsylvania man who shot another man in the chest and was upset he didn'T die returned the next day and shot him in the head. The victim survived both attacks.

Robert Sheets, of Quarryville, is charged with two counts of attempted homicide. A warrant is out for his arrest.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:20:00 -0400201708171920002017-08-17T19:20:00-04:002017-08-17T19:20:00-04:00PHILADELPHIA >> Thousands of people rallying against white supremacists have marched through the streets of downtown Philadelphia.

Wednesday's event was called the Philly is Charlottesville March and Rally. The name is a reference to Charlottesville, Virginia, where a rally of white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis over the weekend led to violent confrontations with counter-protesters and the death of a woman run over by a car.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:19:26 -0400201708171919262017-08-17T19:19:26-04:002017-08-17T19:19:26-04:00NEW YORK >> They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists, Donald Trump's loyal base is happy to absolve the president himself.]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:18:19 -0400201708171918192017-08-17T19:18:19-04:002017-08-17T19:18:19-04:00WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump had pushed many of America's top corporate leaders to the breaking point with his inability to decisively condemn white supremacists - so they huddled on an 11:30 a.m. conference call Wednesday.

The frustrated members of the White House policy forum - which included executives from General Electric, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Boeing, IBM and JPMorgan Chase - chose to dissolve their advisory panel.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:17:51 -0400201708171917512017-08-17T19:17:51-04:002017-08-17T19:17:51-04:00HAMILTON >> All 24 public schools in Hamilton Township need urgent building improvements and new security camera systems, according to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Scott Rocco, who wants the public to support a referendum to prevent further adverse impact to the district's aging facilities.

The new schools chief is preparing to host a series of community discussion meetings to explain to the public why the Hamilton Township School District demands more than $50 million in safety, security and high-priority infrastructure improvements.

If the fake president doesn't like losers, why is he backing the Confederate losers? Those losers were traitors to the United States. When are Republicans going to grow a sine and work to get rid of this racist president? Or are they so greedy to keep their hold on power that they are now racist traitors to the United States themselves?

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]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:55:02 -0400201708171755022017-08-17T17:55:02-04:002017-08-17T17:55:02-04:00President Donald Trump reached a new low Tuesday in his ongoing effort to use the office of the presidency to cast a dark, hateful stain across the land.

By doubling down in placing equal blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., Trump gave presidential cover to white nationalists and supremacists, even as he gave lip-service condemnation to its most extreme members, like those dreadfully misguided souls in the neo-Nazi movement and the Ku Klux Klan.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:54:55 -0400201708171754552017-08-17T17:54:55-04:002017-08-17T17:54:55-04:00UNION TWP >> A women's prison in Hunterdon County continues to be a hotbed of rape.

The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office announced Thursday that a senior corrections officer at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility was indicted on sexual assault charges. Prosecutors said senior corrections officer Joel Mercado, 36, of Lyndhurst, engaged in a sexual relationship with two different inmates at the Union Township prison.

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:28:50 -0400201708171728502017-08-17T17:28:50-04:002017-08-17T17:28:50-04:00EAST RUTHERFORD >> The fight for the Giants' backup quarterback job is taking on a new dimension.

Heading into the preseason opener, veterans Geno Smith and Josh Johnson seemed to be dueling for the job as Eli Manning's understudy with third-round draft pick Davis Webb expected to be given a year to learn coach Ben McAdoo's system as the No.